1.
Open a new image 800x600.
Activate the Preset Shapes tool.
Set the options and styles according to image.
2.
Use the coordinances in the image below to drag an eclipse shape for
the needle. You can use the fill as you please, for simplicity of
the tutorial, I used white instead of the flood fill.
3.
I added a black layer and moved it to the bottom for the sake of this
tutorial; you can do the same or not for visibility sake as you choose
according to your knowledge of PSP and it's tools.
4.
Activate the Freehand selection tool and set control as Point-to-Point,
then select an area for the eye of the needle.
5.
Press your 'Delete' key.
Because the final needle will be reduced so small, the eye doesn't
have to be drawn smoothly but if you intend to use it in a large size,
you might want to make it a lot smoother or use the Rectangle Selection
tool with options set to anti-alias and eclipse.
6.
Activate the Deformation tool and your needle will look like this.
7.
While holding down the 'control' key, move the cursor over the lower
left deformation handle and drag it up until the top of the handle touches
the bottom of the upper left handle.
8.
Image will now look like this. An embroidery needle eye is much
longer than that of a sewing needle to accommodate the multi strands of
embroidery floss.
9.
Now, change the fill to gradient for the background style and match
the settings below using the metallic gradient that came with PSP ot any
other you choose.
10.
You could use Blade Pro to fill your needle instead of the gradient
fill. That option is up to you.
11.
Using the fill tool set to the gradient, flood fill the needle.
I actually flatten my needle a little more in the deformation step to look
less bowed but didn't for this tutorial.
12.
Add an new layer named 'under needle' or named nothing if you are comfortable
with using layers.
13.
Using the Layer palette, move that layer beneath the layer the needle
is on and then activate the layer the needle is on. Right click on
that layer, then rename it to 'needle'.
14.
Add a new layer and name this one 'above needle'.
15.
Using the Layer palette, activate the 'under needle' layer.
16.
Activate you draw tool and set settings according to the image below.
Also set the styles up as below and where I have chosen the turquoise color,
choose the color you want for your thread.
17.
Starting inside the eye of the needle with your bezier curve, drag
a straight line to the far right of the image area; next, click in
the the approximate vicinity of 1X; then click in the approximate
vicinity of 2X. Placement of the Xs will be according to your preferences
if you are familiar with the bezier curve setting.
18.
Should have something like this now!
19.
Using the Layer palette, activate the 'above needle' layer.
20.
Again, with the draw tool set to bezier curve, start inside the eye
of the needle and draw a shorter line this time as shown in the image below;
then click at 1X; then click at 2X.
21.
You should now have something resembling the image below.
22.
Using the rectangle selection tool, drag a line around the needle and
thread; then hold the 'shift' key and tap the 'R' key to crop to
the selection.
23.
If you used the black layer; activate it and then delete it.
24.
With the layers in tact, we will now save the image as a psp format
to use again later - if you think you might want to use it again.
I chose to save now because it would be a simple matter to redo the thread
layers in a different curvature or color without having to recreate the
needle. If you chose a medium color for your thread color, you might
be able to 'colorize' those layer later.
25.
After saving Merge visible layers.
26.
Now you can add a drop shadow to the needle and thread to help with
visibility when size is decreased. Normally, I keep the blur to 1.2
or less and opacity to 90 or more because the needle will be so small but
I used these settings on the tutorial needle.
27.
Now reduce the needle and thread to about 2 inches wide.
28.
Sharpen image one time and it is read to be copy pasted to another
image or tubed.
Finished.
Tutorial by CSGreen
Close Window when finished.
Sigtag:
For the above sigtag, I used the layers below.
Layer one is the background color.
Layer 2 was the name is the thread color.
Layer 3 was the name in white.
needle layer is the layer I pasted the needle to.
On the layer of white text, I moved it directly over the colored text
on the layer below and then I erased or deleted part of the white text.
Next, I moved the needle on the needle layer so the needle crossed over
the break in color of the text. To finish, I erased a line in the
needle so it looks like the needle is passing through the fabric background
color.
Samples by psp Buddies members
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